But why even have a "secondary" or third or fourth, dedication to someone other than God?
It totally confuses the issue.
Ah, now we're getting closer to the point, I think.
People rightly have all kinds of good dedications. It is not wrong to be dedicated to Adult Literacy, or to the well-being of one's marriage and family, or to honesty on the job, or Constitutional Government, or Bible-publishing.
But none of these secondary dedications should rival our primary dedication, which is to God. They should, rather, support that primary dedication.
It's a bit paradoxical. Jesus said (Luke 14:26)“If any man come to Me and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple." But St. Paul said, "But if any does not provide for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." (1 Tim 5:8)
So there is a proper place for dedication to one's family, but the primary dedication is to Christ, which could (in an extreme situation) lead to turning one's back and leaving ("hating") everything else, including your family and including, even, your own life.
So it's a matter of proper order. To order all of one's loves and loyalties in the right way, with God at the top, everything else in some kind of proper descending order, and dedication to God pervading every part of it: this is true wisdom.